Whats the point of saving to CSV?

[somea]

I've tried your software, and it seems to work very well, however it doesn't work much at all in my specific case...

I have a 200gb drive with a corrupt MFT that is also now failing after days and days of constant recovery scanning.. The drive now 'crashes' or 'dismounts' after several hours of scanning before I can recover any files from it. It sometimes even does this JUST as I start recovering a couple files -- The drive just disappears from My Computer and Disk Management and the software reports errors reading every cluster...

I guess my question is WHY cant searches be saved!? It appears that your software is the best tool for recovering files off of it, yet I am unable to use it based on the scenario mentioned above. I know it can save to CSV, but what is the point of that if it wont load the CSV and recover files? Can something else do this? Nothing mentions CSV or export in the help file..

[GDH]

It sounds like your drive is on the way out. From your d********** it may last longer if it does not get hot. I would try pointing a fan directly at the drive and it may stay connected for longer.

In the current version of Recover My Files, 3.94, it is not possible to save the search results and then load the search results in next time you run the program. This feature will be inclued in version 4 (due out later this year).

At the moment, saving to CSV is just a listing of the search results. We included this because many investigators use this program and they needed a search results listing for court purposes.

You may like to try clicking on the OPTIONS button and in the ADVANCED tab put a tick in the box for "prompt for start cluster". That way you can select to run the search on segments of the drive.